Sodexo-run HMP Addiewell has the highest number of self-harm cases and prisoner assaults in Scotland. Figures released to the ...

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) failed to spot that a man who it employed as a prison officer had a criminal record for ...

Jagtar Singh Johal has been held on Terrorism charges for the last eight years in India and now he's been moved to a ...

Scots prisoners released early from jail by the SNP Government have described conditions inside as "terrible". Dozens of inmates walked free today under a desperate bid to ease serious overcrowding ...

Chief Superintendent Rob Hay's warning comes as the Scottish Government is preparing to release another 1000 prisoners by ...

Michael Ross was just 15 when he walked into the Mumtaz restaurant in Kirkwall, Orkney, in 1994 and shot Shamsuddin Mahmood, ...

Legal academic says sub judice, contempt laws and judicial rules do not prevent Scottish ministers discussing the transgender prisoner policy ...

AS noisy pigeons circle nearby, a ramshackle mobility scooter trundles along a street pockmarked with bin bags left out for ...

A new BBC 2 docuseries, The Man in the Mask: An Orkney Murder, takes viewers back to 2 June 1994, when 26-year-old ...

Scotland's top road cop has warned of a crackdown on drug drivers this Christmas after a 60 per cent spike in crimes. In 2024 ...

A BBC documentary series sheds new light on the murder of waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood who was shot dead as he served customers in Orkney in 1994.